Reviews of December (2017): Year End Highlights
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Month: December 2017
The Bridge (2013)
“Only those who attempt the absurd will achieve the impossible.” -Maurits Cornelis Escher Art fans rejoice. The question of whether games are art or not remains either up in the air or an obvious affirmative but the … Continue reading The Bridge (2013)
The Typing of the Dead: Overkill (2013)
“You can’t negotiate with a zombie. They have only one impulse – that’s to eat us or our brains.” – Stephen Graham Jones Continue reading The Typing of the Dead: Overkill (2013)
“More Than Games”
If it’s not a game in the classical sense, then what is it? Continue reading “More Than Games”
King’s Quest (2016)
To-morrow, and to-morrow, and to-morrow,
Creeps in this petty pace from day to day,
To the last syllable of recorded time;
And all our yesterdays have lighted fools
The way to dusty death. Out, out, brief candle!
Life’s but a walking shadow, a poor player,
That struts and frets his hour upon the stage,
And then is heard no more. It is a tale
Told by an idiot, full of sound and fury,
Signifying nothing.
-William Shakespeare, Macbeth Act 5, Scene 5 19-28 Continue reading King’s Quest (2016)
“Joy, Delight, Merriment, Fun = Video Games?”
Uh oh. Irresistible mirth is settling in. Christmas Day is almost here. Continue reading “Joy, Delight, Merriment, Fun = Video Games?”
“Hardware Inklings: the Super RetroTrio”
“We wake and whisper awhile,
But, the day gone by,
Silence and sleep like fields
Of amaranth lie.”
-Walter de La Mare Continue reading “Hardware Inklings: the Super RetroTrio”
